Eportfolio Implementation Strategy in Higher Education: Lessons learned from international perspectives
Marij Veugelers
“an update from the Netherlands higher education portfolio community with an international view”
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SURF NL Portfolio
- SURF Foundation
Dutch Platform organization for IT in Higher Education
more then 60 institutes/universities
Communities of practices/experts:
standardization, multimedia, gaming, sharepoint,
mathematics and eportfolio: SURF NL Portfolio
- Marij Veugelers
community manager SURF NL Portfolio expertise group
project manager portfolio implementation
University of Amsterdam
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Community of Practices
• Create a community around e-Portfolio
• Explore the dynamics of e-Portfolio concept building strategies and change management
• Develop a good story • Learn along the way• Walk down memory lane• Design paths for the future
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Combining, sharing and expanding expertise
Co-operation in the
educational sector, as well as in the field of employment
National and international co-operation
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Website
http://www.surfspace.nl
Contact persons HE institutes exchange meetings
Involvement in e-learning
projects in higher education
Own project tender 2005- 2006
Organising meetings, special
workshops
Conferences, presentations,
papers, etc
Co-operation
In educational sector
In the field of employment
International UK and US
Activities NL Portfolio
Dutch expert group portfolio since 2004
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1. What kind of organization do you work for? University – (Community) College – Other
2. What is your role in your organization? Technical – Educational - Management – Other
3. Where does your organization stand regarding ePortfolio?Thinking about it – Pilot stage – Scaling up – Fully implemented
Reflective exercise on ePortfolio
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Some more questions: Have you ever...(yes or no)
4. supported learners in the development of (online) portfolios?
5. used (online) PDPlanning with students? 6. used a learning online portfolio as a form of
assessment with learners? 7. been involved in the implementation of an
institution wide online portfolio process/system?8. kept an online reflective diary / portfolio / weblog
etc. yourself?
Reflective exercise on ePortfolio
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Models in the NL- HE
- More then 10 years experience
- Collaborative projects in Higher Educationbetween institutes
- Innovation/stimulating funding possibilities
- Several publications, (hand)books, websites
- International exchange (UK, USA and Eportfolio conferences since 2004)
- There is such as: “The Dutch way of…”
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Primary functions ePortfolio from student perspective Van Tartwijk 2003
Planning
Showing Reflecting
• different functions
• different approaches
• different solutions
One size doesn’t fit all
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Many factors involving educational innovation
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Attention areas in e-Portfolio implementation 2003
Van Tartwijk, J., Driessen, E., Hoeberigs, B., Kösters, J., Ritzen, M., Stokking, K., Van der Vleuten, C.P.M. (2003) Werken met een elektronisch portfolio. Groningen: Wolter-Noordhoff.
Learning EnvironmentLearning Environment
Learning activitiesLearning activities
GoalsGoals
PeoplePeople
ManagementManagement
InfrastructureInfrastructure
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2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010
• Digital University launched as collaboration of 10 universities starts building 1 portfolio system for all
• Emerge and Apollo consortia: collaboration of several universities to exchange experiences and explore together
ePortfolio implementation processJoining forces
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2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010
•Digital University
2003-2004: Portfolio implementation instruments project
result:
Website with more than 150 documents
Toolkit for practise at institutes
2003-2004:
sharing materials
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Example portfolio
Different items in the manuals
Project leaders/tutors
section
Managers section
Manuals for students and
tutors/teachers
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Digital University Scenarios in e-portfolio implementation (2004)
COUNSELINGScenario 1
University wide
4 year program in department
1 year programin department
Pilot
+ASSESSINGScenario 2
+PLANNINGScenario 3
Academic universities
Universities of
Applied Sciences
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Scenario 1Portfolio applied to part of the study programme
- Portfolio application is focused on a route for study career counseling or academic schooling
- Activities in this route are focused on counseling in personal development, making personal choices in the study programme and/or ethical questions
- The activities are more or less independent of other learning lines
- Not all the teachers have a counseling assignment
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Scenario 2Portfolio applied to integrated education
- Portfolio is focused on counseling and assessing
- All study activities are focused on attaining the educational qualifications
- Portfolio is integrated into all the educational activities
- All the teachers have counseling and evaluating assignments
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Scenario 3Portfolio applied to demand-steered education
- There is no study programme; the educational approach is focused on counseling and facilitating;
- The main task of the teacher is to counsel the learning process
- Students independently go through the PDCA-cycle: planning, doing, evaluating and adjusting
- Portfolio plays a central role in the learning process
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2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010
Focus circles
Educational
Technical
Research
Organization
e-Portfolio
2004: Bringing stakeholders and their perspectives together
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SupportSupport
Management
Learning environment
Learning activities
Goals
InfrastructurePeople
Portfolio conceptPortfolio concept
E-Portfolio attention areas in NL extra Support layer 2005
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Tender of small scale research projects
- Amsterdam Free University: Wins of portfolio in relationship to learning environment
- Edith Stein University of Applied Sciences: Showing competence development in streaming media
- Arnhem and Nijmegen University of Applied Sciences: Digital portfolio and assessments
- University of Maastricht: Developing a competence profile of e-portfolio coaches
- Utrecht University : Portfolio’s (digital and non-digital) in clinical working situations
- Fontys University of Applied Sciences: e-portfolio als bridge between university and working field in teacher education
2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010
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Publication
Stimulating Lifelong Learning: The ePortfolio in Dutch Higher Education
October 2007
With the results of the SURF NL Portfolio projectsAnd overview article of ePortfolio practices in
Denmark, Germany, UK and NL
Download:http://www.surffoundation.nl/en/publicaties/Pages/Stimulating-Lifelong-Learning-The-ePortfolio-in-Dutch-Higher-Education.aspx
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Checklist Portfolio learning environment
- The portfolio has a clear status / is connected to substantial learning lines.
- Learning lines involve core competences of university graduates and not just separate skills. The objective is academic and professional education, in breadth and in depth.
- Clear levels and standards within the learning lines are communicated.
- Comparable experiences are necessary for pattern identification. Within learning lines students get sequences of varied learning experiences in authentic situations.
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Checklist-part 2
- In order to enhance the self-steering process, portfolio tasks / reflection tasks are given after sequences of practical experiences (academic and / or professional).
- Students are trained to reflect upon their functioning, and requirements are being put upon pattern identification and formulation of the next step in the development (‘self-steering’).
- Students organize and get feedback on their functioning or products immediately after their achievements.
- Systematically students bring forward evidence for their progression on the learning lines.
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Checklist-part 3
- The requirements for reflection reports by students are mirrored in the requirements for tutor skills (i.e. a tutor has to be dedicated to the goal, be an expert as well as a coach).
- The performance of the tutors is part of a plan for improvement and control of the quality of educational programs: they are being trained and assessed.
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Lessons Learned in e-Portfolio Implementation
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Trough of dissilutionment: 2-5 years to mainstream adoption
Where do we stand?
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Issues ahead in HE
- Educational: how best to improve the expertise of teachers, career coaches and student in alternative pedagogical paradigms
- Organisational: scaling up ePorfolio use and link to administrative and educational stakeholders in transparent workflows
- Technical: positioning Eportfolios in heart of information architecture and technical infrastructureencouraging the use of open standards for interoperability
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• Accreditation and accountability of learning outcomes becomes more important
• Reactionary back to basics reflex in politics and public debate against modernistic experiments in education
• Co-operation across educational sector arises as result of retention problems and aging population
2010:
what’s ahead of us?
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• Employability aspects link up with learning
• Regional ePortfolio’s are coming up
• Standardisation and interoperability is key at macro level, but may conflict with context dependent portfolio concepts at or within universities
• Chanelling the Net Generation’s web 2.0 informal learning with school provided activities and tools is challenging
2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010
2010:
what’s ahead of us?
ContactMarij Veugelers [email protected]